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Op-eds, commentaries, journal articles, and books

A woman’s head scarf and a continent’s discomfort

Washington Post, March 12, 2005

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/2005/03/13/a-womans-head-scarf-a-continents-discomfort/ccf73340-b0bc-48d4-a13f-c40a1ec5943c/

The consequences of rushing to modernity

Los Angeles Times, June 2, 1996

https://www.google.com/search?q=mustafa+malik+rushing+to+modernity+los+angeles+ times&sca_esv=0ba5b4315e0bd468&rlz=1

Between God and Adam Smith

Chicago Tribune, October 9, 1996

https://www.chicagotribune.com/1996/10/09/between-god-and-adam-smith/

“Whose was is it now”

Boston Globe, December 23, 2004

http://archive.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2004/12/23/whose _war_is_it_now/

“Islam’s missing link to the West”

Middle East Policy, Vol. 10 # 1 (2003)

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“America’s quest for a new moral bedrock” Religious Experience and Civil Society

https://books.google.com.bd/books?hl=en&lr=&id=tNX_0KOd- qoC&oi=fnd&pg=PA327&dq=whose+war+is+it+now%3F+mustafa+malik&ots=RGxUEO nhLy&sig=ahYFSO2Knzm1N7MkjPfFcm0VmU4&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false

“Spookier than Bin Laden”

Miami Herald, Nov. 1, 2001

Hope for Serb, Albanian harmony is a pipe dream”

St. Lous Post-Dispatch, Sept. 2, 1999

Detente with Iran

San Francisco Chronicle, July 13, 2007

“The Rising visibility of Muslima in America”

Baltimore Sun, October 22, 1996

https://www.baltimoresun.com/1996/10/22/the-rising-visibility-of-muslims-in-america/

“Bangladesh’s quest for identity”

Providence Journal, March 17, 2013

https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/columns/2013/03/17/20130317-mustafa- malik-bangladesh-s-quest-for-identity-ece/35422407007/

“Islam in Europe: Quest for a paradigm”

Middle East Policy, Vol. 8 # 2 (June 2001)

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1475-4967.00021

“Seeds of hate: How America’s policy ignited jihad”

Middle East Policy, Vol. 11 # 2 (Summer 2004)

https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA118417361&sid=googleScholar&v=2.1&it=r& linkaccess=abs&issn=10611924&p=AONE&sw=w&userGroupName=anon%7Ed365e68 8&aty

“The wrong ‘battle plan’ for peace”

Philadelphia Daily News, April 4, 2003

“In Bangladesh, Islam with an anti-American edge”

Houston Chronicle, Sept.12, 2003.

“Others may be behind letter bombs”

San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 13, 1997

“A law of return for Christians”

Baltimore Sun, June 10, 1997

https://www.baltimoresun.com/1997/06/10/a-law-of-return-for-christians/

“Racism, Ethnicity, and Muslims in Britain”

Middle East Policy, Vol. 12, Issue 4, Winter 2005

https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA140563240&sid=googleScholar&v=2.1&it=r& linkaccess=abs&issn=10611924&p=AONE&sw=w&userGroupName=anon%7Eaee1337 5&aty=open-web-entry

“Let democracy fight terrorism”

Baltimore Sun, Nov. 9, 2007

https://www.baltimoresun.com/2008/04/03/let-democracy-fight-terrorism-in-pakistan/

“No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam”

Middle East Policy, Vol. 12 # 2 (Summer 2005)

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“With Ocalan convicted, Turkey faces a big challenge”

Philadelphia Inquirer, July 8, 1999

"Turkey faces a challenge to democracy"

Philadelphia Inquirer, July 8, 1999

"India's estranged communities"

In David McComb,  World History, Vol. II

“A year later, no relief for Iraqis”

Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Jan. 12, 1992

“Fruitless sanctions against Iraq”

St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Dec. 23, 1991

“Defeating the Taliban is a pipe dream.”

San Francisco Chronicle, May 17, 2009.

“Pakistan’s political muddle,”

Philadelphia Inquirer, Oct. 5, 2007

“It’s the Kurds’ turn for world recognition”

Christian Science Monitor, Dec. 9, 1998

“It’s the Kurds’ turn for world recognition”

Christian Science Monitor, Dec. 9, 1998

"Kashmir: Waiting for the high tide"

“Detente with Iran”

San Francisco Chronicle, July 13, 2007

“Let democracy fight terrorism in Pakistan”

Baltimore Sun, April 3, 2008

"U.S. pushes Pakistan toward danger zone"

Boston Globe, September 19, 2001

“Mahmud Ali: Turbulent life shaped by tough calls”

New Age, Dhaka, Bangladesh, December 9, 2006

“U.S. should liberate Arabs, not just land”

Newsday, March 14, 1991

“A law of return for Christians?”

Baltimore Sun, June 10, 1997

The problem is occupation, not Islamic ideology”

Daly Star, Beirut, Lebanon, Aug. 1, 2005.

Detente with Iran

San Francisco Chronicle, July 13, 2007

“BD secularists in Islamic cloak”

Dawn, Pakistan, Aug. 1, 2009

“EU accession: Let Turks be Turks”

Zaman, Istanbul, Turkey, July 23, 2004

“Will Kashmir be a nuclear trigger?”

St. Louis Post-Dispatch, May 21, 1990.

“There is no Democratic solution in Iraq”

Daily Star, Beirut, Lebanon, Nov. 23, 2006

“Europe’s cultural ‘revolution’”

Middle East Policy, Spring 2010

“Did the Kurds win anything in Kosovo?”

San Francisco Chronicle, July 6, 1999.

“Democracy may come to Islamic governments”

Detroit News, April 21, 2003

“Turkey remains strong U.S. ally, why not for  EU?”

Chicago Tribune, May 15, 1997

“India and the United States look for a common ground”

Hartford Courant, Nov. 9, 1987

“Pakistan’s generals let freedom reign”

Hartford Courant, Sept. 2, 1988

“America should leave Pakistan alone”

San Diego Union-Tribune, November 9, 2007

“Pakistan: Can U.S. policy save the day?”

Middle East Policy, Summer 2009

“India’s political reality: Market economy, stupid!”

Christian Science Monitor, June 5, 1996

“News of Pakistan’s demise in premature”

Daily Star, Beirut, Lebanon, May 22, 2009

“In Gulf, U.S. wants oil, but no responsibility”

Christian Science Monitor, Dec. 9, 1996.

“U.S. pipe dream in Pakistan”

Philadelphia Daily News, May 19, 2009

“A new culture could save the Democratic Party”

Austin American-Statesman, May 29, 2003

“The threat to ME peace”

Dawn, Karachi, Pakistan, January 27, 2009

"Clinton's Kashmir cul-de-sac"

Boston Globe, March 17, 2000

“Israel's population bomb"

New York Daily News, July 21, 1999

“BD secularists in Islamic cloak”

Dawn, Karachi, Pakistan, Jan. 8, 2009

“When ignorance is bliss”

Concept, Islamabad, Pakistan, Dec. 2004

"India: Mosque, temple and state"

World & I, March 1993, pp. 78-85

“Kurds’ struggle for autonomy threatens to spark a civil war”

St. Louis Post-Dispatch, June 17, 2004

“A Crusader state again”

New Nation, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Feb. 7, 2004

“Democracy grows on Muslim soil in Bangladesh”

Denver Post, Sept. 21, 2003

“Pakistan’s odd dance with the Taliban”

Daily Star, Beirut, Lebanon, July 1, 2008.

“Caught up in the terror trap”

Providence Journal, June 3, 2008

“Suspected by my country”

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, May 25, 2008

“Pakistan: Terror War Bolsters Islamism, Nationhood”

Middle East Policy, Spring 2008

“Muslim world’s ‘mindset’”

Fortworth Star-Telegram,” Aug. 1, 2005

“Muslims pluralize the West, resist assimilation”

Middle East Policy, Spring 2004.

“Focus should be on Afghan leadership”

Columbus Dispatch, Oct. 10, 2008.

“America, say hello to Islam”

Seattle Post-Intelligencer, April 21, 2003

“Pakistani army reluctant to fight Taliban”

Columbus Dispatch, July 5, 2008

“Under suspicion, American style”

Daily Star, Beirut, Lebanon; May 20, 2008

“Don’t expect instant democracy”

Hartford Courant, March 17, 2003

“Pluralism and cultural racism”

Middle East Policy, Fall 2005

“Who is winning the war on terror?”

Dawn, Karachi, Pakistan, October 14, 2005

“Terrorism in pursuit of Western values”

Daily Star, Beirut, Lebanon, October 7, 2005

“Neocolonialism’s last hurrah”

Zaman, Oct. 6, 2005

“The price tag for alliance with the U.S.”

Dawn, Aug. 26, 2005

“Have a moderate Islamist over for coffee”

Daily Star, Beirut, Lebanon, Aug. 26, 2005.

“Kashmir crisis may threaten arms showdown”

San Diego Union-Tribune, May 23, 1990

Turkey’s Kurdish question”

Middle East Insight, January-February 1999, 21-50

“Islam’s evolution in secular nation”

Austin American Statesman, Sept. 12, 2003

“U.S. should pay more attention to moderate Islamists”

Columbus Dispatch, Aug. 25, 2005

“Consider real causes of Muslim terrorism”

Omaha World-Herald,” Aug. 1, 2005.

“Get on with reunification”

Concept, Islamabad, Pakistan, Aug. 2005

“Iraq occupation at root of Islamist rage”

Columbus Dispatch, July 26, 2005

“Ms. Rice got it wrong!”

Zaman, Istanbul, Turkey, June 29, 2005

“Something rotten in Riyadh”

Hartford Courant, May 12, 1996.

“Rx for Muslim societies: democracy for freedom?”

Middle East Policy, Summer 2005

“U.S. unwittingly aids Iran in gaining Iraqi foothold,” Columbus D  “Sectarian electoral maneuvers may break Iraq apart”

“Sistani’s obsession,” Zaman, November 17, 2004.

“U.S. unwittingly aids Iran in gaining Iraqi foothold,” Columbus D  “Sectarian electoral maneuvers may break Iraq apart”

Daily Star, November 27, 2004

“Sistani’s obsession,” 

 Zaman, November 17, 2004.

“U.S. election: Bet on humility,” 

Zaman, Nov. 2, 2004.

“Islamo-Christian civilization”

Middle East Policy, Fall 2004

“Islam, terrorism and fundamentalism”

Zaman, Istanbul, Turkey, Sept. 14, 2004

“Transnational political Islam”

Middle East Policy, Summer 2004

“Saving the region from a dangerous plot”

Zaman, Istanbul, Turkey, July 1, 2004

“America could kill Iraq democratically”

Daily Star, Beirut, Lebanon, June 8, 2004

“Kurdish autonomy must be addressed”

Columbus Dispatch, June 2, 2004

“Bringing Israel into NATO alliance is a bad idea”

Daily Star, Feb. 9, 2004

“Bangladesh being changed by Islam, and vice versa”

Columbus Dispatch, Sept. 8, 2003.

“History will see Palestinian chief more kindly”

Columbus Dispatch, May 10, 2003.

"Bernard Lewis and the decline of Muslim civilization"

Middle East Policy, June 2002

"Forces of religion are pulling at many societies"

Hartford Courant, October 13, 1996

"Balkan blind spot"

News Watch January 20, 2000

“Turkey's Imperiled European Ties”

Philadelphia: Friends Publications, 1999)

"Ocalan - a Kurdish perspective"

Middle East Insight, March-April, 1999, pp.17-21.

"Erosion of civil society: Adam Smith is succeeding where Marx failed”

Impact International, London, August 1997

“From cold war to cold peace”

Impact International, London, July 1997

"Religious law and Christianity in the Third World"

Florida Times-Union, July 21, 1997

"Ethnicity and Islamic modernization"

In Peachey, P. (ed.), Abrahamic Faiths, Ethnicity and Ethnic Conflicts (Washington: Council for Research, 1997), pp. 59-76.

"Rising visibility of Islam in America"

Baltimore Sun, Oct. 22, 1996.

"America's quest for a moral bedrock" in McLean, George (Ed.), Civil Society and Social Reconstruction

 (Washington, D,C.: Council for Research, 1996)

“Turning Iraq into Afghanistan?”

 Impact International, London, September-October 1992.

Twentieth Century

(Guilford, Conn.: Dashkin Publishing Group, 1989), pp. 178-184.

“An ethnic mosaic: Ethnicity mediates Islam in Pakistan,”

 World & I, November 1988.

“The Arabs talks of peace, will Washington join in?”

Hartford Courant, Jan. 13, 1985

“Despite stumbling blocks, things look good for a deal”

Hartford Courant, Dec. 2, 1984.

Purbakashe Kalo Megh” (in Bengali), Dark Clouds on the Eastern Horizon

(Dhaka, Bangladesh: Nibedan Prakashani, 1978).

Ganatantrer Atandra Prahari (in Bengali ) Democracy’s Restless Sentinel],

(Dhaka: Bao- Belal Publishers, 1971).

“New age Muslims: They embrace modern life but Pittsburgh

Post-Gazette, June 12, 2012

“The situation in Kashmir: Waiting for the high tide”

Kansas City Star, Oct. 11, 2001

“Democracy grows on Muslim soil”

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Sept. 2, 2003

“Don’t expect instant democracy”

Hartford Courant, March 17, 2003

“Courting tyranny to fight terror”

Hartford Courant, Oct. 1, 2001

“Pakistan’s political muddle”

Philadelphia Inquirer, Oct. 5, 2007

“With Ocalan convicted, Turkey faces big challenge”

Philadelphia Inquirer, July 8, 1999

“Bangladesh: Devastated by tidal wave and relentless population growth”

Hartford Courant, June 2, 1985

“Clinton’s Kashmir cul-de-sac”

Boston Globe, March 17, 2000

“Whose war is it now?”

Boston Globe, Dec. 23, 2004

“U.S. pushes Pakistan toward danger zone”

Boston Globe, Sept. 19, 2001

“Hostilities on a nuclear subcontinent”

Chicago Tribune, May 24, 1990

“Pakistan’s future: Do the generals know the perils?”

Chicago Tribune, Aug. 29, 1988

“Turkey remains a strong U.S. ally, why not for EU?”

Chicago Tribune, May 15, 1997

“Between God and Adam Smith: Examining the backdrop of Islamic fundamentalism”

Chicago Tribune, Oct. 9, 1996

“Spookier than Bin Laden”

Miami Herald, Nov. 1, 2001

“Hope for Serb, Albanian harmony a pipe dream”

St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Sept. 2, 1999

“Will Kashmir be a nuclear trigger?”

St. Louis Post-Dispatch, May 21, 1990

“Democracy and Islam coexist in Bangladesh”

St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Oct. 1, 2003

“Fruitless sanctions against Iraq”

St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Dec. 23, 1991

“The rising tide of Islamic fundamentalism”

St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Oct. 10, 1996

“Kurds’ struggle for ‘autonomy’ threatens civil war’

St. Louis Post-Dispatch, July 17, 2004

“Saudis change attitudes toward Americans”

St. Louis Post-Dispatch, July 11, 1996

“Will Kashmir be a nuclear trigger?”

St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Dec. 23, 1999

“Will Kashmir be a nuclear trigger?”

St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Dec. 23, 1999

“Pakistan: Terror war bolsters Islamism, nationhood”

Middle East Policy, Vol. XIV # 1 (Spring 2008)

“Pakistan: Terror war bolsters Islamism, nationhood”

Middle East Policy, Vol. XIV # 1 (Spring 2008)

https://www.proquest.com/openview/a4f0bbf7c8c8ec37e1587372a2897ecd/1?pq- origsite=gscholar&cbl=31168

Islam, Democracy and Postmodernism)

(Washington, D.C: Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University, 2000

“Islam’s emerging ‘Third Space’ in the West,” In Mustafa Malik, et al (eds.), Communications Across Cultures: The Hermeneutics of Cultures and Religions in a Global Age

 (Washington, D.C.: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, 2005).

"Kosovo: A milestone in Christian-Muslim relations"

Middle East Insight, July 1999.

Purbakashe Kalo Megh (in Bengali) – Dark clouds on the Eastern Horizon – Dhaka, Bangladesh

Biplob Publications, 1970.

Gonotondrer Atandra Prohori (in Bengali) – Democracy’s unwavering sentinel – Dhaka, Bangladesh

Bao-Belal Publishers, 1969.

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